Improvement in salt-trottghs for cattle



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Letters Patent No. 86,066, dated .Tarma/ry 19, 1869.

IMPROVEBEEINT IN SALT-TROUGHS FOR CATTLE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters -Patent and making part `cafthe same.

- To all whom 'it ma/y concern.-

'between the bottom and the top of the box, through which the animal canlap up salt without the liability of waste.

Its object is to provide asafe deposit of salt, conven ient of access byanimals at all times, and prevent waste thereof, and thereby secure abetter state o`r condition of health than can be expected where salt isdealt out to th'em .only occasionally, thus providing means Whereby theanimal can supply itself according to the diotates of instinct.

' In the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 is a top view of my invention;Figure 2 isa cross-section or end view; and

Figure 3, a perspective view.

This trough or box may be made of any desirable form, length, breadth,or depth, as desirable.

care sides of the box.

b is the bottom.

e, the ends.

.f is a perforated division between the bottom, b, and the top edge ofthe box.

This bottom, b, is perforated, so that the animal can insert its tonguethrough said perforations or perforation, (more than one, if desirable,)and lap salt to its satisfaction, and while doing so, the drip or wastewill fall into the upper portion of the box.

Thus the health of the animals can be greatly promoted, and the ailingwhich so greatly prevails among them may be avoided.

What I claim, therefore, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The peribrated diaphragm f, when constructed as TlMOTHY GLADDING. [L s.]Witnesses: E. W. BLISS,`

J. W. Buss.

described, in combination with a trough, as specified.

